| Assessment |
Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
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| Graduate Attributes (GA) |
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Knowledge of a Discipline
The unit develops students' knowledge of disciplinary categories and methods, particularly genre and practices of reading and writing, in media and literary studies. This knowledge is assessed through written assignments and tutorial work.
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Communication Skills
These skills are essential to the content and methodology. The unit requires the practice and development of communication skills, especially through the development of assessable written communication.
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Global Perspectives
The variety of texts studied and the nature of the required writing tasks provide global perspectives and develop intercultural knowledge and competencies. Because the unit asks students to consider their motivations in weaving 'truth and fact' into a coherent narrative, ethical, personal, political and global perspectives resound throughout.
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Information Literacy
Information literacy is encouraged and supported, particularly through an emphasis on topic research and fact validation. The materials provided, the methodology adopted and the assessment required provide opportunities to expand informational literacy but do not of themselves demand a high level of practice.
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Life-Long Learning
By analysing and practising the processes and techniques of written communication in a non-fiction format, the unit provides the basis for on-going study of communication practices relevant to both personal and professional development.
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Problem Solving
The assessment tasks in this unit, while largely creative and practical, also require levels of critical and analytical thinking and articulation that demonstrate the processes essential to understanding the challenges of written communication.
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Social Responsibility
The unit's emphasis on the constructed nature of written communication implies a recognition of social responsibility and the way in which the production of texts also reflects, represents, reproduces and interrogates social ideologies which may, or may not, be regarded as 'the truth'. The unit focuses on ethical questions associated with the production and reception of the non-fictional text.
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Team Work
The pedagogy underpinning the unit will emphasise ethical considerations and respect for others, and the classes themselves, for on-campus students, will include the modelling of a team work approach in learning activities, although this attribute will not be formally assessed.
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